Folding ironing-table



(No Model.)

/ J. D. PAGE.

FOLDING IRONING TABLE. N0. 407,790. Patented July 30, 1889.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFF. D. PAGE, OF GIBSLAND, LOUISIANA.

FOLDING IRONING-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,790, dated July 30, 1889.

Applicationjiled December 15, 1888. Serial No. 293,684. (No model.)

T (0% whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFF. D. PAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gibsland, in

the parish of Bienville and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Ironing-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a folding ironingtable; and it consists in a certain novel construction and combination of devices, fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a table embodying my invention in its operative position. Fig. 2 is a similar View thereof in its folded position, showing the under side. Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the table-top, which is hinged at its rear end to the upper ends ofthe legs B B, and O designates the tablehead or iron-rest which is rigidly secured to and connects the upper ends of the said legs. The upper ends of the legs are beveled downwardly toward their rear sides to enable the free front end of the table-top to be raised slightly above the horizontal position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

D D represent side bars, which are pivoted at their rear ends to the inner sides of the legs B B, near their upper ends, and are pivoted at their front ends to opposite sides of the standard E, near its lower end. This standard rests at its lower end on the floor, and is fitted at its upper end in a socket F, in the under side of the table-top, near its front end. I

G G represent flat braces, which are pivoted at their rear ends to the inner sides of the legs B B, below the rear ends of the side bars, and are fitted at their front ends in keepers H H on opposite sides of the standard E, near its upper end. These braces are provided at their free ends in their lower edges with notches I, which engage the lower sides of the keepers, the weight of the braces normally holding them in engagement. The

.braces are further provided at intermediate standard, and in order to accomplish this the free end of the table-top must be raised, as indicated in dot-ted lines in Fig. 3, to disengage the upper end of the standard from the socket F, when the upper end of the standard may be swung forward, thereby disengaging the free ends of the braces. After disengaging the upper end of the standard from the socket F and releasing the front ends of'the braces the standard is folded inward between the side bars, the side bars are folded against the under side of the table-top, and then the legs B B and the braces are folded against the tabletop on opposite sides of the side bars. Having claim The combination, with the table-top having the legs B B pivoted to its rear end, of the side bars pivoted at their rear ends to the upper ends of the said legs, the standard supporting the free end-of the table and pivoted at its lower end between the front ends of the side bars, and braces G G, pivoted at their rear ends to the legs B B, fitting at their front ends in keepers on opposite sides of the standard, near its upper end, provided with notches in its lower edge to engage the lower sides of the said keepers, and further provided at intermediate points in their upper edges with notches K K, engaging studs on the side bars, substantially as and for the thus described the invention, I

purpose specified.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JEFF. D. PACE. Vitnesses:

P. W. SMITH, W. B. RENO. 

